Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-29
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W. G. II. q. Department,
M. LOUISE TANNER, EDITOR

THE friends of prohibition are cordially in
vited to contribute to this department. Conn.,
munications to be available must be brief. Az
dress the editor, P. o. Drawer, 1851
/ never heard praise asoribed to a
drunkard, but for bearing OF his drink,
whIch is q commentator tor a brewers
horse or q drayman rather than q geptie-
man.-Lord BurleigA.
Alcohol is the one evil genius, whether
in wine, or ale, or whisky, and Is killing
the race Of men. Stay the ravages of
shis one poison, alcohol, that king OF
pOisOns, the mightiest weapon of the
devil, and the millennium will soon dawn.
DR.. Willdrd Parker.
II. in view Of the appalling evils Of.
the liouor-business, that business is, by
the leaitimately expressed verdict of the
people, declared to be a crime against,
society, and, accordingly to be prohibit
ed, no n should CLAIM that the man
who is compelled to quit such a business
must be compensated for any loss of
property he had pnt into the obnoxious
traffic.
One OF the best sermon We have seen
for q long time on the temperance ques-
tiont at the present moment, is one
which we find printed in the
Sterling Gazette OF this State recently
preached, and repeated by request, by
the pastor of the Congregational church
there, Rev. Martin Post. 1t is the kind
OF sermon that needs to be preached
from every pulpit in the land. Miss
Francis b. Willard the other day, writ
ing from Marquette, in Northern Wis
consin, makes this remark. But / never
felt more deeply that we can only reap
where we have W These people,
bright, kind and good, are out OF the
current, haven't heard the arguments;
have been consciously lowered by their
surroundings in motive to expectancy
rather than keyed to the clear, pure
note o fit must be safe to do the right
-Uhfcago Adodace.
The Moral Uns0undness OF Hlgl,
License.
The following is the remainder of an
E~article the first part OF which appeared
two weeks ago. II was left ont last week
through q Misrepresentation on the part
of the conductor OF this column. NJ. L. Il.
Now the thing sanctioned; the actual
saloon we license, or authorize, to sell
drinks over the counter by the glass, for
one year, OF payment ct fee or tag, is q
moral ~abomination. The high license
advocates themselves say it Is 80 school
OF crime" the enemy of society, ~Hprolifc
| nj nnnynV 1roor1a. M -, ~ 49,.
deserving the condemnation OF ali
good men,"
Your judgment again, good reader.
lave we the moral right. off
cially OF unofiiclally, directly or indi-
lrectly. by vote OF speech, to authorize
whatSweS know and declare to tie .tthe
EQpen manufacturer of erime?' Would
lyon put your own oficial signature TO q
document saying, s.by virtue OF she au-
thority vested in me by the statutes, ]
hereby anthorlze-to prosecute q
traffic which deserves the Condemnation
OF all good men ?" Would you not sooner
lose your right hand than have given
under il" the authority to do for one
year the infamous work of one OF these
licensed grog shops 2And what is the diff
ference between the hand that casts a
ballot for the law, and the hand that
signs q license under the law?
1t 10 this fundamental moral objection
to the license system, that will yet COM
mand the public conscience. Get il
fairly before the mind, and it makes an
end of ths plausible popular fallacies SO
often urged in behalf of license.
They are fallaoles, because they are half
truths; truths of policy, and not of prino,.
pie. Here are are some of them:
a loaf Ia better than none,n But
is 1t better, ii poison is in it2
"Iwenty saloons are better t~hanthirty.,'
Are twenty murders better than thirty.
II IN ~lessenipg the number by ten, the
government must issue its forraaI license
to commit the twenty?
must restrict where we cannot
sanction" Certainly; and therefore We
favor every restrictive feature of the
license law. Bnt we must not we'd re-
strlction to sanction land we therefore are
unaltersbly opposed to the license fea,
ture. 1t is utterly bad morals to restrain
Uany men from dong q wrong by di-
rectiy authorizing a few men to do the
wrong.
"Of two evils, choose the least" Nay
rsthe, if two evils choose neither. i,
both involve the sacrifice of principle
II can never be right to choose to de
wrong And wrong is rot made riehi
by beng made alternative to anothe,
and greater wrong. Aud between {
greater and q less wrong. neither Goo
nor conscience allows a choice. II thu
TWO evils are moral we must reject both
or claim the liberty Of choosing between
different degrees Of gnilt.
Hence the unsoundness OF Senator
Blair's much landed statement of the
question, in the recent Republican ANTI
saloon Convention held in Chicago. HI
said; AS between low license and NJ
iicense. we are for low license. AS be-
tween low license and high license, ".
is.a for high license. AS between
high license and prohibition, we arr
for prohibition All this is sheer ex.
pedlency. 1t would be we'll enough Q,
the level OF political economy, il th,
question were inc of mere policy. Blu
shrIst o moral principle into the glitter.
ing alternatives Of Senator Blair, ant